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Geologic Unit: Cumberland Head

Usage:

Cumberland Head Formation (NY*,VT*)
Notable exposures in Lake Champlain area.


Geologic age:

Late Ordovician (Mohawkian to Cincinnatian; Chatfieldian to Edenian)*


Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:

Type area: South Hero Island, Grand Isle Co., VT, 2 mi southeast of Cumberland Head. Named from Cumberland Head near Plattsburgh, Clinton Co., NY (Kay, 1937).


AAPG geologic province:

Appalachian basin
New England province


For more information, please contact Nancy Stamm, Geologic Names Committee Secretary.

Asterisk (*) indicates published by U.S. Geological Survey authors.

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Slash (/) indicates name conflicts with nomenclatural guidelines (CSN, 1933; ACSN, 1961, 1970; NACSN, 1983, 2005, 2021). May be explained within brackets ([ ]).